TheHistory of Americanmusic fromthebeginningof 1900to today.
The U.S.A. were indispensable for the development of music styles, in fact in America was born most of current music that became famous in the world. For example, at the beginning of the '900, in the Cotton Belt, afroamerican slaves created the blues style, that in the following years influeced a lot of other kinds of music, like Jazz, Pop, Rock and Roll and Hard Rock. You can find other information here !
The Blues.
The "blues" is an instrumental and vocal kind of music born from the songs of the African-American community of slaves on the plantations of the southern states of the United States of America (the so-called Cotton Belt). Many of the styles of modern popular music derived from or were heavily influenced by the blues. The Blues history was signed by a lot of artists, some of them still alive like B.B.King, The Blues Brothers and Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan. Click here for the original page
Riley B. KIng.
Riley B.King, known as B.B.King is a famous bluesman born on 19 september 1925 in a poor family. When he was a teenager, he was crazy about the blues and with his guitar ,named "Lucille", he has been a music icon since the early '50s. Even now someone says that he's the best Bluesman in the world.
Other important exponents of blues music in the world are the "Blues Brothers". This band was founded by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in 1978 but it reached fame and success around 1980 on Tv too with the film "The Blues Brothers".
Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan (Dallas, October 3, 1954 - East Troy, August 27, 1990) was an American blues guitarist. He was born in Dallas to Jim and Martha Vaughan, but moved to Austin, Texas at a young age. There, he started to play the guitar, following in the footsteps of his older brother Jimmie (also a well-known musician, guitarist of Fabulous Thunderbids ).
At 17 he left school to devote himself entirely to music.
Stevie was totally self-taught and without any knowledge of music theory: he played, sang and composed "by ear".
Country is the union of several kinds of popular music born in the south of the U.S.A. around 1930. It developed thanks to the traditional southern music and the Anglo-Irish folk music too. Vernon Dalhart was the first country singer to have national success,whereas other famous artists of that time were the Blue Sky Boys, Riley Puckett, Don Richardson, Fiddling John Carson, Ernest Stoneman, Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers and Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers.
Verno Dalhart was born in 1881 in Texas.
He made his first recordings for Edison in 1911, but his recordings of "Wreck of the Old 97" and "Prisoner's Song" for Victor in 1924 became the biggest selling records up to that time, with sales eventually amounting to 25 million according to some estimates. He subsequently recorded on virtually every American label. It is estimated that Dalhart had 5,000 releases covering 1,000 songs, under as many as 135 pseudonyms. The recordings in this collection are a nice sampling of the country phase of Dalhart's career. He died in 1948.
Jazz is a sub-genre of blues, born around 1910 in the southern states of America. There are a lot of jazz kinds like funk jazz, free jazz, modern jazz, latin jazz, acid jazz and a lot of other styles around the US. The best men that marked the history of jazz are
Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Frank Zappa. Other information here
Miles Davis.
Miles Dewey DavisIII (Alton,May 26, 1926- SantaMonica,Sept. 28, 1991) was a composer and Americanjazz trumpeter, one of the most influential, innovative and original musicians of the twentieth century.
It is difficult not to recognize Davis a role as an innovator and musical genius.Equipped with a unique style and an unparallel range of expression for almost thirty years, Miles Davis was a key figure in jazz and popular music of the twentieth century in general.
Rock and Roll is a subgenre of the blues, born around 1950, though its origins are often the subject of discussion among historians of music. Rocking was a term used by gospel singers in the southern United States to indicate something like mystical ecstasy. The blues musician Roy Brown used it in 1947 with an ironic meaning in his song Good Rocking Tonight, where the words were apparently referred to the ball, but it was in fact a not so hidden allusion to sex. These puns were not new in blues music but it was the first time that you heard it on the radio. After the success of Good Rocking Tonight, other singers used this term in their songs which were reserved for an African-American audience and they weren't known to the great white audience. So Alan Freed, who was a dj, decided to create a new radio program that broadcast "black music" for "white audience". He named his program The Moon Dog House Rock 'n Roll Partyand it is usually ascribed to the title of this show the origin of the expression Rock and Roll. Other information here
Elvis Presley.
Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Mississippi, on January 8 in 1935.
In 1954, Elvis began his singing career with the legendary Sun Records label in Memphis. In late 1955, his recording contract was sold to RCA Victor. By 1956, he was an international sensation. With a sound and style that uniquely combined his diverse musical influences and blurred and challenged the social and racial barriers of the time, he ushered in a whole new era of American music and popular culture.
He starred in 33 successful films, made history with his television appearances and specials, and knew great acclaim through his many, often record-breaking, live concert performances on tour and in Las Vegas. Globally, he sold over one billion records, more than any other artist. His American sales earned him gold, platinum or multi-platinum awards. Among his many awards and accolades were 14 Grammy nominations (3 wins) from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award which he received at age 36, and his being named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation for 1970 by the United States Jaycees. Without any of the special privileges his celebrity status might have afforded him, he honorably served his country in the U.S. Army.
His talent, good looks, sensuality, charisma, and good humor endeared him to millions, as did the humility and human kindness he demonstrated throughout his life. Known the world over by his first name, he is regarded as one of the most important figures of twentieth century popular culture. Elvis died at his Memphis home, Graceland, on August 16, 1977.
Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek met when they were students at UCLA's film school. Robbie Krieger and John Densmore were in a band called The Psychedelic Rangers, and knew Manzarek through their meditation classes. Together, they formed The Doors in 1965, borrowing the name from The Doors Of Perception, a novel by Aldous Huxley. The group released its first album, "The Doors" in 1967.
James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. Despite a limited mainstream exposure of four years, he is widely considered to have been the greatest electric guitarist in the history of popular music, and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Other information
The History of American music from the beginning of 1900 to today.
The U.S.A. were indispensable for the development of music styles, in fact in America was born most of current music that became famous in the world. For example, at the beginning of the '900, in the Cotton Belt, afroamerican slaves created the blues style, that in the following years influeced a lot of other kinds of music, like Jazz, Pop, Rock and Roll and Hard Rock.
You can find other information here !
The Blues.
The "blues" is an instrumental and vocal kind of music born from the songs of the African-American community of slaves on the plantations of the southern states of the United States of America (the so-called Cotton Belt). Many of the styles of modern popular music derived from or were heavily influenced by the blues. The Blues history was signed by a lot of artists, some of them still alive like B.B.King, The Blues Brothers and Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan. Click here for the original page
Riley B. KIng.
Riley B.King, known as B.B.King is a famous bluesman born on 19 september 1925 in a poor family. When he was a teenager, he was crazy about the blues and with his guitar ,named "Lucille", he has been a music icon since the early '50s. Even now someone says that he's the best Bluesman in the world.
Other information here
The Blues Brothers.
Other important exponents of blues music in the world are the "Blues Brothers". This band was founded by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in 1978 but it reached fame and success around 1980 on Tv too with the film "The Blues Brothers".
Other information here
Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan (Dallas, October 3, 1954 - East Troy, August 27, 1990) was an American blues guitarist. He was born in Dallas to Jim and Martha Vaughan, but moved to Austin, Texas at a young age. There, he started to play the guitar, following in the footsteps of his older brother Jimmie (also a well-known musician, guitarist of Fabulous Thunderbids ).
At 17 he left school to devote himself entirely to music.
Stevie was totally self-taught and without any knowledge of music theory: he played, sang and composed "by ear".
Other information here
Country Music.
Country is the union of several kinds of popular music born in the south of the U.S.A. around 1930. It developed thanks to the traditional southern music and the Anglo-Irish folk music too. Vernon Dalhart was the first country singer to have national success,whereas other famous artists of that time were the Blue Sky Boys, Riley Puckett, Don Richardson, Fiddling John Carson, Ernest Stoneman, Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers and Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers.
Other infomation
Vernon Dalhart.
Verno Dalhart was born in 1881 in Texas.
He made his first recordings for Edison in 1911, but his recordings of "Wreck of the Old 97" and "Prisoner's Song" for Victor in 1924 became the biggest selling records up to that time, with sales eventually amounting to 25 million according to some estimates. He subsequently recorded on virtually every American label. It is estimated that Dalhart had 5,000 releases covering 1,000 songs, under as many as 135 pseudonyms. The recordings in this collection are a nice sampling of the country phase of Dalhart's career. He died in 1948.
Vernon Dalhart's original website
Jazz.
Jazz is a sub-genre of blues, born around 1910 in the southern states of America. There are a lot of jazz kinds like funk jazz, free jazz, modern jazz, latin jazz, acid jazz and a lot of other styles around the US. The best men that marked the history of jazz are
Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Frank Zappa. Other information here
Miles Davis.
Miles Dewey DavisIII (Alton,May 26, 1926- SantaMonica,Sept. 28, 1991) was a composer and Americanjazz trumpeter, one of the most influential, innovative and original musicians of the twentieth century.
It is difficult not to recognize Davis a role as an innovator and musical genius.Equipped with a unique style and an unparallel range of expression for almost thirty years, Miles Davis was a key figure in jazz and popular music of the twentieth century in general.
Other information here
Louis Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong , also known as Satchmo or Pops, was the greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it meant to play Jazz. His
amazing technical abilities, the joy and spontaneity, and amazingly quick, inventive musical mind still dominate Jazz to this day.
You can find his biography here http://www.redhotjazz.com/louie.htmlThis is one of Louis Armstrong's famous song.
Other information here
Rock'n Roll.
Rock and Roll is a subgenre of the blues, born around 1950, though its origins are often the subject of discussion among historians of music. Rocking was a term used by gospel singers in the southern United States to indicate something like mystical ecstasy. T
Elvis Presley.
In 1954, Elvis began his singing career with the legendary Sun Records label in Memphis. In late 1955, his recording contract was sold to RCA Victor. By 1956, he was an international sensation. With a sound and style that uniquely combined his diverse musical influences and blurred and challenged the social and racial barriers of the time, he ushered in a whole new era of American music and popular culture.
He starred in 33 successful films, made history with his television appearances and specials, and knew great acclaim through his many, often record-breaking, live concert performances on tour and in Las Vegas. Globally, he sold over one billion records, more than any other artist. His American sales earned him gold, platinum or multi-platinum awards. Among his many awards and accolades were 14 Grammy nominations (3 wins) from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award which he received at age 36, and his being named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation for 1970 by the United States Jaycees. Without any of the special privileges his celebrity status might have afforded him, he honorably served his country in the U.S. Army.
His talent, good looks, sensuality, charisma, and good humor endeared him to millions, as did the humility and human kindness he demonstrated throughout his life. Known the world over by his first name, he is regarded as one of the most important figures of twentieth century popular culture. Elvis died at his Memphis home, Graceland, on August 16, 1977.
http://www.elvis.com/
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The Doors.
Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek met when they were students at UCLA's film school. Robbie Krieger and John Densmore were in a band called The Psychedelic Rangers, and knew Manzarek through their meditation classes. Together, they formed The Doors in 1965, borrowing the name from The Doors Of Perception, a novel by Aldous Huxley. The group released its first album, "The Doors" in 1967.
Other information
Jimi Hendrix.
James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. Despite a limited mainstream exposure of four years, he is widely considered to have been the greatest electric guitarist in the history of popular music, and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
Other information